The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 07, 1878, Image 1
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TllWljEI, LDTIONol - -YN N'S13Ot. iSiNM TiU788.- {AoiY
TIIE YELLOW FEVER.
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s o ll'A'lll'ilV NSo o liit 1:1,
He.rb'ronding Do'irts-- Sicknosa and
sufe1.ring-Contributions of Charity.
[ II1 Telr yraph to /he Nel; )'okri IIeialel. ]
Qux1NADA, Mis3., Sopt. 2.--Thioro is
very little of an oneouraging nature
to rep'ort to-night. There wero five
deaths to-day-two vhites and three
neogros. Col. Wim. T. Cole, the
post-nastor, died at ono o'clock this
moeninh1g. Six new cases have been
roported siica I is' ovoning. Judge
IF airfiold is vory low. 'lho diseaso
is very complicated, and baflies the
skill of the most oxperionccd physi
cians. Patients are often left by
t'ioir doctors inl a fair way of rc-)v.
Ory, and in loss than six hours after.
ward some chango, wholly unac
c mutablo, occurs to proice sudden
death. There is it c.sie in poi n t to
(Iy. Ono of th, J-mvard physicians
told your corres:ponmdLnt th-tt early
t'hiis morn ing he left a youn 1 lady
of excellent family whoso synptoms
)roliSed1 SI)Oly COU V 0losSoono c.
About ten o'clock he called again and
found her in a low state, so low,
indood, that lie e'\pOets to report her
dothl to night. R is utterly ilmpos
sible to tell who vill aid w ho vill
not recover.
(.LVEYARD SCENEs.
To- day, in compi:ny with Djr.
Henry Stone, of Natezll, your cor
rosionl-leit visited thao O.tSftwrd(
cinotery. On all sides wore newly
mai:dok, muimls and 0empty graves, the
1lItter being" already ordeored.
Wlites and blacks, rich and poor,
loniored and nnknown, all are buried
with the sam1e haste. The colored
soxton, with lis two assistluit -, took
us5 over* the groun.1 ald coIunted the
graves for us. There, were fifty
seven. In the comotery in the west
part of the town are throo timos as
many more. The utter indiflfronco
shown reminded me of Horatio and
Vhe dIi-rers inl thegr( vyn-son
il Haidet. And t. h1e in.1 Iireneo is
iot confie1d.l to the cllous hoart id
gr"aveyard huun-ls. "i en.Id umemlcts
friend upon the stroot. As thev,
1 ts you IU hoar the wr's, "M1i. I
or Mrs. - is dotld.' "1s that so'
and they tramp on1ward, thoUgh
possibly the do-e sed wts near and
dear to them both.
soLEMIN onGOHou SERVICE,
Last night thoi R1ev W. U. \1
Oraccen hold tihe lit-mnly sorviOe inl
the ofico of the How.trds, wvhich is
in theO Chamberlain House. To a
little group of perhaps thirty por
sons lie said on opening tho salvico:
"Last Sunday night this samo lita
ny service was road to about the
saInO iiiber a1is now prosent, yet
hilly half who then held these books
in their hands are with us no moiore."
Tlu room wars occnpied by all class- I
cs of blacks and whites of both
tiexos. Rank and caste wero forgot-|
ten. In theso hours of distress and
danger the refined andi the uinedt..
catedl meet upon a common level;
imastor and servant aro ujnknowvn ;
"man" is tho only3 termi recognized.
ANoTHIER NOBLE SPIRIT PASSINCo AwAY
Col. Butler P. Anderson cannot
live. A despatch his just beeni sent
to Mempmhiis to forward a special
train for his-body, which will soon
bo boreft of that noble spirit which
has dwelt within it. This is a horeio.
ic ending to a noble life. Such men
can novor die save in the body.
Ho passed through two proyions!
epidemics, and now at the last the
Grenada scourge has laid him in tho
dust. Ho wats a man of great enor
gy and courage, and wats known
throughout the entire South as the
president of the Howard Associntion,
that has sent its heroic nmissionarios
to all plaeos wvhcro human lives wore.
to be saved1. He was a noble hoart
od. man-a hero and a martyr.
The ScourA'e at Vicksburg.
Vralianunoe, Sopt. 2.--.Tfh ore is so
munch confusion, hurry, troubllo amnd
terror in this towvn to-night that it
is impossible to give the exact fig
tires as to the number of new cases.
of yellowv fever. The doctors still
continue to go downm before the fever
like ordinary mortals, doubhling the
labors of those wyho are wvell until
they havoe not time to m~ako rep~orts
or take the necessary rest, and re
fresh monts to keoep up. A. physician,
after being entreated and petitioned
by tho friends of the sufferers con
aented, but said :"I have been
going before daylight this morning,
stopping only to echango horses and
oat. I have thirty--tw. dalls to make
yet to..night, an4ywf and chil..
dron sick at home. The same
doctor to-day, while driving at
broaknock speed-for horse and
mdo flesh is not spareud, though
changing horses throo timos a day
wats callod to by a inI to halt, but
answored ho (lid not have time.
The bridlo rein w.rs grasped, tho
flying l -horses stopped and the doc.
tor ordored to dismount anl go in.
This was a recourse. that is the only
"squro" way to got a doctor quick
ly now.
CONTINUED RAVAoE1S OF TH1E DI.EASE.
A caroful estimate from wlhat few
eases atre soen indicates an increaso
over the last report. Two hund-rod
and fifty noV C1se3 would b3 a mod
orate estimato for to-'day. Thoro is
a slight decrease in tho death riate.
The sexton reports eighteen inter
mnets for thu past twenty-four
hourr. Among those dead are those
that could least be spired, who went
downm martyris through thei: iflorts
to savo others. Father Mc"AManus,
the beloved priest of St. Paiul's
chureb, died this umorning. -lie will
be dleply regetted and his ieiory
reveroe by aIll croed1 and class in
this sorrow-strickon comiiliiLy.
Joseph F. Dall, chief of the fire
departitmuent and 1iyor elect, whoso
installtation waIs to have takeni plkee
to-imorrow. i amflolg the do td of
to- day. ChmarlCs Nathan and J. W.
Jolly, yoimg imen of raire J)rolise,
a1ru among the victims whose (eaths
hIelp to inWVCreasC th1e gloom that on
shrouds the city t:)-Iight.
A t Greenville, lisisippi, a town
of ton thousand inhamnbitants, two,
thirds are out of omployment anid inl
a destituto condition.
Condition olMemphis.
M rmms, September 2.-W\hile
the deaths havo not boon so
numierous to-daiv as yesterday.
the distress hats boen greatoer. )ui
ring the pamst few days mny faii
lies h-vo been carried ofl and a
largo portion of the cool-headed
and cfloient mworkers aro now pros
trated. The force employed to
bury the dead has been inadoquato,
and to.aiy, at a meeting of thme
Citizens' Roief Committee, an ad
ditional forco of f-ty i m was
org miiizo l for thoat p)1 s..)$O*
ATmlo.sr A N moit:) IP.
Torc was great e-oitemll at
110011 to -d ty on acemnt of a niegrO
guard shooting miI badly waundin
Ia dis.rderly ngro who had boon
arrested and attenipted4 to escape.
The negroes about the commissary
dpartmioit becamo very boisterous
mid throatoning, but the ngro
military and polico force behaved
well and soon restored order.
There is a grolt (10111 of hostility to
them on the pirt of the worso por,
tion of the blacc population, who
will not work and xpress i a doter
Mimiation to livo vell as long as
there ar- any provisions in the city.
There were fifty-three deaths yes
torday, nineteen of blacks.
Slight Improvemxonti in New Orloana
Nsew Omnumxs, Sept. 2.---Tho ofli.
cil istatomonit of casos of yollowv
fever foi- the past ti wonty-four honr-s
is :--Doaths, eight y -ight (same as
yoster-day); nowv cases, two hundr-ed
and nino ; against two hundred and
sixty yestorday, a deoroetse of tifty
one. The lar-go numher of new
casos reportecd 01n Sunmdy may be
accountedl for by the cianges inl the
weaitheor. Heavy rainsa andI the suid
don transition of tonmper-aturo could
only prIodneCo thoe worse effects upon
all wvio were not acclimated. The
fever- must runf its course. It seems1.
to be mlmost inevitable thamt all wvho
havo nmot had the diseaso must have
it, it being only a question of time.
There are, however, households
wvhero not a single case has ap,
pearedl as yet, owing, perhamps, to a
careful avoidance of all exposure.
Whothor theo fever is contagious or
not is disputed, but there can be
uo doubt very few escape having
the disease in a household whoe it
once appoar-s, and this, too, some
times with torrific results. In one
inlstanlce, out of a family consisting
of father, m~other and throe chil
droni, only one was loft. Of anoth4
or family, consisting of father,
mother and two children, not a
member survives. Full blooded
perons of nervous temnpoLrament
seem to suffer mnost. There appears
to b)0 no very groat difference as to
the method of treatment ; the only
question is whetheor 'nyoro or less
ventilation, covorinig anid nourish
mont is roquirod--in otlbor wordls,
whether we shiould food tho dieoaso
or starve it.
A PLUOKY TELEORAPH OPERA~TO1.
The plucky succoesor of thme de
ceased Tomn MarshalI, tolog'aphor at
Geonada., is the veteran teain'ranh
iuperintendent D.avid Flanory, a
gentleman well known and respoeted
throughout the South. A M\on
phis despatch gives the laie a1s
1"leming," which is errol nons.
Mr. Flanery h'Is boon identi lcd wit hI
the tclograph in Now Orle uns and
elsewhere all his life, and in fever
times has constituted hiis~elf a
nurse and personally cared on mnny
occasions for his sick and (yinIg
Operatnor3 1cently lhe relimo'ed to
Richiond, Va., from which plaico lie
voluntarily tendered his services
whero needed, and ho was ordored
to Grenada.
The total numbor of deaths fron
fover to dato is 1,091, including 161
children under cloven years of
age.
Tho following dispatch has just
been received
PoR Gmsox, Miss., Sept. 2.
Pour hmared cases and lifty-five
denths out of the live hundred and
ity persons renaining in town.
Twelve hundred have fled. 'T.'he
distress is very great, the sick dying
with no one to givo them ia drink of
water. S->m nurses are on the
way from Now Orleans and Chicago.
iielp and funds aro nooded.
Junts A. GkrW,
President Howard Association.
Contributions P-uring In.
Contributions aire pouring in
from all gnturters. Nesv York has
raised thus far nearly fifty thous-tnd
dohlars, Robert Bonner of the
Le(dgter giving a thosisand ; Phil-t
delphia reports 825,000 ; Pitkburg,
$11,000 ; Charleston, $5,000 ; Au
gista, 81,500 ; Saratoga, $1,000
Rochester, 8800, and a large num
bor of other cities and towns hive
contributed in amlnounts not stated.
Further Particulars.
YlcsDnuo , September 4.--The
city sexton reports 36 doths in the
past 2-1 hours. One physician re
ports 60 new c.ases. It is thought
the number of now cazCS
will go far abovo any other day
simco the fover appeared. The
Physicians say they Call no loger
make a report of new cases for van t
of time and tho large increase of
such C.wqcs. The Howard Associ tion
i.s ea.agin Gols nams for hyi ii
Ci:a1's from a1 l po.iit's of thi c In1ry
t1) co . ) tie el ie f the triek'n
one f Vicksburg. The rumber of
physicians here is siall, and they
are broken dow), and several are
sick.
iNasur.LE, Septemlllber 4.-A Spe,
cial from Brownsville, Tenessee,
says; :To- d-ty has beer, a blue one;
thirteen new anses and four dodhs
reported. The fever attacks natives
and visitors alike. The Hiowards,
with the aid of the city authorities,
havo to bury the deid themselves.
The town is deserted. All stores
except the drug stores are closed.
Nurses, money and supplies are
neoled.
MOBILE, Sept. 4 --Notwithstand
ing the case of yellow fever reported
by Dr. Gains hst SAturday, thero
hims beenf no spread of the disoiso.
The city is enjoying excellent health
Nr~w ORLEANs, Septolinber 4.--Tihe
wveather to-day is unifavorable. A
heavy rain is prevailing. Two hun
dred and l;welvoe new cases are
reported, and seventy-two de aths.
GE.-IAnA, Sept. 4.-Sinco last
night's report there haive been
twelve now cases and eight deaths
--One negro and sevon whites.
There is no abatement of the dis
ease.
Hoitry SPINos, 191iss., Sept. 4.
There arc over 60 cases of fever and
six deaths to-day. Business is 811s,
poended. There is a great neod of
nlursos and physicians. Two physi
omnls ar sick with the fever and will
(lie to-day. Gloom, despair and
death rule the hour. The situation
is simply appalling. The outside
world are alppeled to for help.
The telegraph operators are going
to l.cavo.
L ivEs KING.-Thoe Liver is tho
imperial organ of tihe wvholo human
system, as it controls the lire, health
and happiness of man. When it is
disturbodl in its proper nction, all
kinds of ailmen ts are thle natural
result. Tile digestion of food, the
mfovemjents of tihe heart and blood,
tile action of the brain and nervous
system, are all immediately On
nected with the wvorkings of the
Liver. It has been successfully'
p~roved th at Green's August Floweor
is unequalled in curing all per'sonls
afflictedl with Dyspepsia or Liver
Complaint, and all the numeroua
symptoms that result from an un,
healthy condition of tile Liv~or and
Stomacb. Sample bottles to try,
10 cents, I'ositively sold in all
towns on tile Western ' Continent.
Three doses ilhl prove that it is just.
what. you wan .. *
ALL ABOUT OYSTERS.
-o0
How thoy are Brad--A Thriving Tradc
Bemoaning that DroLdful Lotter "R."
[Cm- the XNew I wrk Ierahl. ]
The spawn of the oyster devel
opes in the period of about two
years into what the planters tochnis
e dlly call "5scod." This "nood" is
phited, or rathor seattero(l, along
the river bottoms in such places
as are selected, and from them the
oyster grows. The spawn itself is
t0 unsubstantial to ho handled. It
floats in tho water until it reachos a
congelili1 temperature, when it
settles anlrd fastens to the bed.
Then it slowly develops until at the
end of from eighteen to twenty
four imonths it has grown into
scores of tiny oysters. Those are
the "sed." They are taken up and
carried to whatever "groluid," as
the river bottom is called, owned or
occupied by the oysterman. This
process is called transplanting.
Hero they are allowed to remain
for two, three or five years, as the
case may be. when they are taken
up and broaght to market. The
seed which suIpplies tihe New York
dealers i S obtained prinmilpllity 1)fiom
naturai bcds in tihe y.tors of Newark
Bay and the Hill Voni Kul1). The
b ids in Nowark Bay are quito ex -
teusive, covering anm area of about
four hundred acrOs.
wNVIIlRE THEY THRIVE BEST.
Oy'steXrs thrive best on ground
that is soft aid muddy. On tle
chamincter of the soil depends the
siz.e anid coIitionl of the oyster.
By transplanting dealers are
enabled to obtain slow or rapid
growth as they desire. On soft
soil they grow long aid narrow,
but on hard or rocky soil the
oystors becomo short ind thick.
This :; di I- n is anadntg
of by hP.aers,w
(0mine bth eloients-. e., after
leving tiem for -ia certain length of
time in soft soil they transfer tbem
to a rctky bed. Iy doing this a
full round founi is given to the
shell.
Tie indiustry, it seems like oti
ers, has iis dilhetultics and draw
backs. Swne yulrs ie be Is turn
out poor :md saulity table supplies.
Thro ) ears ago an nmusually bad
season prevailed, The growthi lmv t
year w.ts excellent, and Po far the
prsent year the planters are cheer~
ful. Three causes operato to (lo
vastato the yield. The first is tihe
vorations drumidish, with its spiked
teeth, which crushes the oyster as
a squ':-ol doe a nut, Oftentimes
w% hole beds are thus dostroyed.
The only preventative the plant,
ers hr vo is to anchor barrels or
boxes to the bed of theo river,
leaving them floating about a few
foot from thme bottoi. These act
as a sort of' pieultural scarcerowv,
frighiteninug tho drumuish away.
Shoiuld the oysters bie saved froin
the fish they havo still another
enemy and] otontimes a more dan.
gerous one in the nmussels, which
fasten uponm thoan liko barnao'es and
smiother them by closinmg the shells
firmly together'. The mussels,
however, are short lived, and( whon
they do not COmoi inl largo herds
they prove benoficiaul rather than
injuriouis, as theOy enrich tho msoil
andl pr'omnot the oysters growth.
A third evil somnctimnos occurs in1
shifting beds. Not unfrequontly it
happens that large quantities of
oysters are badly shifto'd fron1) one
planter's ground to tha~t of another.
For this there is no r~emedy, the
planters bejng unable to identify
their property fron) that of their
neighbor. This shifting, it has
beoen noticed, occurs only after
violent storms, which disturb the
river's bed.
Hmow BEDS ARIE PRE-EMPTED.
U~nder theo statute no title in foe
ean be obtained to the bod of
navigable streams, ber t to pronotg
the inoustry of oysters' grosyth the
law of long ago geo, tie adjacont
landownors tibo right to cultivate
the bottou.. Thi3s right Is conveyed
by bill of sale, and the lhantors re
gard theo same as inviolable. Said
an old doalor, in speaking of the
subject to the writer:-M"t's pretty
much in some waters liko Weostor4
lands. A man seleets a good1 had
and stakes it off, and nobody e1go
interferes with him. .The bottotri
is his as long as lhe chooses to
keen it. B3uts" lhe onitinnuo. "Lhat h
are very fow good lacos now that
have not lrealdy boon taken pos
session of, and the only way to
got a losirablo place is by purchas
mug it."
The reportor next visited the
depot of James W. Boyle, one of
the most extensive plantors and
exporters in the industry. "In
busy timcs," .,id Mr. Royle, "we
keep twonty-fivo vosols and about
150 men engagod, Now York is
the great oystor contro of the
world. Many years ago tho indus
try was confincd to Staten Island,
but It grow f . largo, and to-day
Now York not only largely sup
plies the West, buit, ships extensive,
ly to Europe," Then opening 14
number of oystors of dissimilar
sha11pes Mr. 31oylo explained their
diff'ernces. By looking at the shell
oystormon ire enabled to toll not
only the ago of the bivalve, but
also frequontly the particular bed
from wljoh it caio. The best
oysters are said to be thoso about
two years old. At that age they
are very tender. The bluo points,
which are the most expensivo, are
taken from natural beds in the great
South Buy. They are not trans
planted.
A visit to the dopot of Alexander
Fraser, another large planter, was
next imado and the peculiarities of
the bivalve uider difforent circun
staicos learned One curious fact
was narrated. The oyster opens its
shell only during flood tide, and
after it has been brought to markot,
often miles away fromn the water,
it ili;riatbly openls its shell whon
the tido is at flood.
Another f'oyster market," where
wholesalo tcoalei s havo their depots,
is at tile foot of Wost Tenth street,
where James A. W. Ellsworth,
Jacob I. iorsomnan, 1enry Miller
aind a number of other plaiter
look after the intorest of tile oyster
lover. 1oro tile reporter was in
struieted in tlo mysteries of "suin
mer" oysters. Those, the plantors
say, are brought from the rivers of
Virginia just before spawnling time.
Northern oysters, they oxplained,
were never used during the summor
months on account of that being
their spawning season. By the first
of September spawning is endod,
and then begins in earnest the work
of collctiling thq oysters,
A visit to the establisllment of
Samel Robbins, Doran & Shaffor
tnd a nimiber of others wias next
mado. The general opinion waq
that the oyster business dturing the
moiths containing an "r" was fron
ton to fifteen times largor than in
May, June, July and August. All
bemoaned the popular prejudice,
and each oyster man yas vWilling to
make affidavit that oystors were the
most nutritious food in the world
and that the lotter 'ir" was a hum
b~ug.
TOWN OR1DINA4NC.
4x OnmnIINr.On T) Rusr SurmIES FOR TH1E
MUxWCIPAT YAA 1878-.70.
1)E IT ElfACTaD AND CITIDAINED,
b.~y the Intendamnt and WVardons of
thle Trown of Winnslaro, 8. 0., in Coun
cj) met, that
I. For the pqrpaso of raising supplies
for t~he year~ cozmmming the first of
April, 1878, ani 1 onding~ the first Of April,
1879, a tax for thme sunny andl in the man
nor herdinafter muontiood shall be raised
and pain inito the treasury of the said
town for the use anid service thereof, thmat
is to say; two and one half muills ad valo
remi up)on every diollar of 1,he vahue of all
the real anid persona) p~ropeorty within
the corporate limits of the saidl Town of
Wi'nnsboro; thtreodollairs to be paid by
every male inhabitants of said town, bes
twoocn the ages of' eighteen andi forty-fivq
years, in lion of working upon the stroots
of said town; and three per cant, upon
the amuount of all sales at anction.
2. All taxes assessed and payable
undcer this Ordinance shall be paid In
the following kimgds of funds and no~
other: Gold and silver cola, United
States Currencoy auga National Blank
Noteos.
3. All taxes assessed heroin shall be duo
andi payable between tho- first day of
October, 1878, and thme thirtieth day of
lNovember, 1878, jnoittsivo;.and all taxes
remaining due and unpaid on the firs$
dlay of December, 1878, shall be collected
by dia-rass og othorwise, as now pro
scribed by hiv', together with all legal
costs.
4. .411 persons holding property in the
corporate limits of tho said Town of
Wirinsboro, are required between the
first day of August, 1878, and the six..
teenith day of Boiptembier, 1q78, to mauke e
sworn return of said property for taxa..
tion, to the Towvn Clerk, and the sai4
Trown Clerk is -hereby required, when
pro portv-holders fall or refuse to make
said sworn return. to add tifty per eon
tumn to the return of the previous nuinio,
ipal year.
.-- Done in Conncil this the thirr
L.8 .ty-first day of July A. D., 1878,
sa-~ 5id Town Coofn ..
Attest: J 4fItene ,
Wa~r N. CzwANDnmn, Clerk.
( '1Aljr at J. M.l 1EA TY'S for all kin~le
\. of' Che *ng Tobacco. Durham's ant)
thrkinds of Sacking To~baceo, ).97 Ifpy
eask